Problem building OpenJDK on a set-top box

[Gary Benson]

Hi Jonathan,

IcedTea (icedtea6 anyhow) has the zero-assembler port which should
build out of the box on any linux/gcc platform.  I say should, because
it's new and we're still working out kinks, but it works enought to
build itself on 32- and 64-bit PowerPC, I've had reports of it working
on zSeries and Itanium, and there are a couple of guys working on ARM
as we speak.

Cheers,
Gary

Jonathan Springer wrote:
> Beyond just getting it to build, to Hotspot uses a fair amount of
> machine code internally, which would have to be retargeted to the
> SuperH ISA to get it to run.  IcedTea helps, but my understanding is
> that there would still be probably a few months of work required to
> support a new CPU.
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
> Gary Benson wrote:
> > Hi Olivier,
> > 
> > OpenJDK does indeed require java to build, but that aside there
> > is the issue that HotSpot does not support the sh4 processor.
> > Check out IcedTea instead (http://icedtea.classpath.org/) which
> > has a) the ability to bootstrap with gcj, and b) support for
> > building on platforms with no HotSpot support.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Gary
> > 
> > Olz wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I'm currently trying to get java working on a set-top box
> > > (chipset-family : sh4, processor STb1709), running a STLinux OS.
> > > I tried to follow the steps on this tutorial :
> > > http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/11/29/building-the-jdk.html
> > > 
> > > I won't describe all the difficulties to install all the
> > > dependencies needed to pass the "make sanity"...
> > > The main problem actually is that when I try to make from the
> > > control/make/ directory, I get an error saying that ant can't find
> > > java, and ant seems to be needed for a successful compilation.
> > > It's the same thing with findbugs...
> > > So I'm kind of stuck in a bad loop, ant needs java, java needs ant...
> > > 
> > > Has anyone tried to get OpenJDK working on a STB? 
> > > Advices and help needed!
> > > 
> > > Thank you,
> > > 
> > > Olivier
> > > 
> > > PS : Sorry for bad English.
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> > > Nabble.com.
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